Mechanize

Mechanize, 11 months ago

Personally I use it when I need to spin up a medium to long term virtual machine.

It's fast to set up, it's fresher than a debian based one and you can easily "get dirty" with off the beaten path choices, if you want. Having easy access to the AUR is really a great plus too.

I would never use it as my main distro or as a real OS on the HDD, tho. For that it's just better to use Arch directly, and with the "new" installer it's relatively fast and painless too.

I feel it has its place as a middle ground for someone that wants to learn more about using linux, but who is not really ready to leave the comfort of having an opinionated preassembled experience.

Mechanize, 11 months ago

Che ne penseresti d'inviare una copia dei backup - magari sezionati in mesi o trimestri - ad archive, come faceva una volta StsckExchange?

Il problema principale sarebbe di dirlo chiaramente nella privacy policy che i post (o più precisamente i db dump) sono salvati in questo modo.

Ciò permetterebbe di migrare facilmente i contenuti in una nuova istanza Lemmy, se ve ne fosse bisogno, o di usarli come dataset per la ricerca (e, indirettamente, finalmente si formerebbe un dataset organico in Italiano di discreta qualità per il training di LLM).

Mechanize, 11 months ago

Purtroppo non ho ancora avuto abbastanza tempo linearmente coeso per immergermi nella documentazione di Lemmy, ma da una ricerca veloce ho visto nella documentazione presente su join-lemmy che i dati vengono immagazzinati in un database Postgresql.

Se hai accesso alla shell dell'host non dovrebbe esser complicato creare dei dump del database usando pgdump.

Purtoppo qui siamo sui bordi esterni del mio campo di competenza, quindi se qualcun altro mi può correggere?

Mechanize, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I think I read there's currently a bug with Hot (and maybe active too?) sorting that can crop up when an instance is not rebooted for a while. Most people were suggesting to use the other sorting options till it get fixed, with a lot preferring "Top Day" or "New Comments".

I tried to find the discussion or the github issue back but I had no luck, if I find it I'll add an edit later, so until then take what I wrote with a pinch of salt.

EDIT: I think this is the bug report: issue#3076 and it seems someone is currently working on a fix!

Mechanize, 11 months ago

I think the comment they were referring to is this one: #264724

BTW FYI the two links you posted are not to the same comment. The second one is from a total different discussion too.

The comment id varies from instance to instance.

Mechanize, 11 months ago

Usually the people using the term Jailbreaking mean it as using some kind of exploit to break the rules and limits created by the manufacturer of a product.

It can mean, keeping your example, the act to exploit a known vulnerability to side load apps on your iphone.

In the case of LLM I generally saw it used to mean using non trivial prompts to trick the model to divulge information that it was trained to not share (like suggesting, or instructing how to do, illegal actions), or having behaviours against the alignment it was given (like NSFW roleplaying). So, in short, bypassing its guardrails.

You can find the famous Dan (do anything now) prompt in the llama.cpp repository. Just to be clear I think this one was patched out a long time ago, but you get the idea.

Mechanize, 11 months ago

PSA:

beehaw ha defederato lemmy.world e sh.itjust.works (Annuncio (link))

Aggiungo anche il collegamento ad un ottimo post che spiega cosa significa (link) a livello pratico, e definisce chiaramente come funziona la federazione e la defederazione fra istanze.

Spero sia utile!

Mechanize, 11 months ago

Non so se è ancora così, ma ieri c'eran problemi con la federazione di kbin.social perché, per affrontare l'esodo, avevan attivato la protezione anti ddos ed anti bot di Cloudflare.

Purtroppo tale protezione crea errori nella federazione. 🤷‍♂️